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I. The Massacre: On May 29, 1978, members of the Guatemalan army shot indiscriminately into a crowd of Maya Q’eqchi’ campesinos who gathered in the town square of Panzos, Alta Verapaz to express demands for land they had long occupied. The mayor, Fabio Monzón, known for confiscating peasant property for his own uses, had already […]